Plots of enlightenment: education and the novel in eighteenth-century England

"Plots of Enlightenment explores the emergence of the English novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of "modern" English citizenship for both men and women." "This book considers how the period...

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Main Author: Barney, Richard A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 1999
Edition:[Nachdr.]
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Summary:"Plots of Enlightenment explores the emergence of the English novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of "modern" English citizenship for both men and women." "This book considers how the period's diverse forms of educational writing (including chapbooks, conduct books, and philosophical treatises) and the most innovative educational institutions of the age (such as charity schools, working schools, and proposed academies for young women) produced a shared concept of improvised identity also shaped by the early novel's pedagogical agenda."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XII, 402 S. Ill.
ISBN:0804729786

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